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Developing More Effective Paradigms for Assessing and Monitoring Cognitive
Change Across the MCI and PreMCI Spectrum
David A. Loewenstein, PhD Rosie Curiel PsyD Sara Czaja, PhD
University of Miami School of Medicine
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Limitation of Widely Used Memory Measures In Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment
1) Many measures and cognitive paradigms underlying them have been around for several generations
2) There is tremendous variability in MCI patients because of different levels of attention to the task, different learning strategies and cognitive reserve
3) Measures that have performed well in the evaluation of dementia or late MCI may not optimal measures for assessing early MCI and PreMCI states
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Limitation of Widely Used Memory Measures In Early Detection of Cognitive
Impairment (Continued)
4) May not fully capture different aspects of memory
5) Subjects are not used as their own controls but are rather compared to group averages
6) Lack of sensitivity across the range of MCI and PreMCI states makes many cognitive instruments limited across the entire range of MCI
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What is the Importance of Good Cognitive Assessment In Clinical Trials? • Recent guidelines forwarded by the FDA suggest they
will not consider the approval of a medication using a biomarker as a surrogate outcome measure in AD (at any stage of the illness) until there is widespread evidence-based agreement that an effect on a particular biomarker is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit.
• Such benefit will most likely need to be identified and measured as individuals transition from normal to Pre-MCI or MCI states that are associated with risk of progression to AD.
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How do we Develop the Most Effective Memory Assessment Instruments for
Clinical Trials?
• We need to develop paradigms that are maximally sensitive
• Different subtests capture different ranges of cognitive severity in MCI and PreMCI states.
• Cognitive markers should line up with sensitive biomarkers in MCI and PreMCI states.
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How do we Develop the Most Effective Memory Assessment Instruments for
Clinical Trials?
• Individual variability caused by differences in attention, education, culture and learning strategies can be minimized by employing techniques such as controlled learning.
• Constructs such as proactive and retroactive interference in the context of maximum storage allows us to compare a person’s performance to their optimal capability.
• Assessment must be computerized for optimal portability, reliability in administration and applicability to the early stages of AD.
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Can we construct a Cognitive Stress Test To
Measure Subtle Cognitive Dysfunction ?
A Potential Model: Vulnerability to Semantic Interference as an Early Marker
of Alzheimer’s Disease
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Semantic Interference Test (SIT)
Loewenstein, et al., (2004) Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (1)
91-100.
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SEMANTIC INTERFERENCE TEST (SIT) (Loewenstein, Acevedo and Duara et al, 2004)
• Ten common objects are presented and recalled over three learning trials
• Introduce 10 additional objects for recall which are semantically related to items on 1st list (e.g., fork for spoon; comb for brush)
• Proactive Interference- Old learning interferes with new List B learning
• Retroactive Interference- New List B Learning interferes with recall of original targets
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Interference Effects In Learning and Memory
• We are not dealing with any type of interference, we are dealing with :
SEMANTIC INTERFERENCE
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Sensitivity and Specificity of the SIT in the early Detection of MCI-AD
MCI-AD Sensitivity= 84.6%
Normal Elderly Specificity= 96.2%
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SIT Longitudinal Findings (Loewenstein, D.A., Acevedo, A., Agron, J. & Duara, R. (
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 2007)
• Relative to a wide array of neuropsychological measures List B recall (susceptible to proactive interference) was more highly predictive of decline from MCI to dementia over an average 30 month period
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Amyloid Scanning In AD Subject and Healthy Normal Subject
Miller B & Heflin L (2008)
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Association Between Florbetapir SUVR, SIT and Different Memory Measures in 17 Nondemented
Community Dwelling Persons with Memory Complaints
SUVR Total Anterior Cingulate
Posterior Cingulate
Fuld Object Memory Evaluation
r= -.08 r= -.16
r= -.25
Delayed Logical Memory For Passages
r=-.48 r=-.57* r=--.57*
SIT List B (subject to proactive interference)
r=-.64 **
r=-.72 **
r=-.66 *
Short-Delay List A Cued Recall (subject to retroactive interference)
r=--.43 r=-. 49 r=-. 69***
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Loewenstein-Acevedo Scales for Semantic Interference and Learning
(LASSI-L)
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Examiner: “You will see 15 words, one at a time. The words will be fruits, musical instruments, or articles of clothing. Each time I show you a word, I want you to read it out loud. Later on, I am going to ask you to tell me, from memory, all of these words, which will be fruits, musical instruments or articles of clothing. Read each word out loud so that you can remember it later.”
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The Subject Needs to Use Cued Recall Over Two Trials to Maximize Storage of
the Fifteen Targets
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Delayed Cued Recall for List A Targets
2 presentations and 2 cued recall trials of List B Targets
2 presentations and 2 cued recall trials of List A Targets
Present List A Target Words Belonging to Three Semantic
Categories:
Fruits Clothing Musical Instruments
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LASSI-L Findings (Crocco et al., 2013, AJGP; Curiel et al, 2013;JAS)
• LASSI-L subscales all have extremely high test-retest reliabities
• Strongest Predictors in Logistic Regression and R0C Models is List A2 Cued Recall and List B1 Cued Recall
• Sensitivity and specificity for MCI versus normal subjects is 87.9%/91.5%
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Association Between Medial Temporal Atrophy and LASSI-L Measures in 16 MCI Patients
MTA Left MTA Right
List A1 Cued Recall r= -.43 r= -.40
List A2 Cued Recall
r=-.53*
r=-.57*
List B Cued Recall r=-.75***
r=-.58*
Short-Delay A Cued Recall r=-. 04
r=-. 14
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Association Between Florbetapir SUVR and LASSI-L Measures in 17 Nondemented Subjects with Memory Complaints
SUVR Total
List A1 Cued Recall r= -.44
List A2 Cued Recall
r=-.38
List B1 Cued Recall r=-.15
List B2 Cued Recall r=-. 56*
Short Delay Cued Recall r=-.10
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Association Between SUVR and LASSI-L Measures in 17 Nondemented Subjects with Memory Complaints
Precuneus Posterior Cingulate
Frontal AC Temporal
List A1 Cued Recall
r= -.60 **
r= -.74** r=-.50 r= -.46
r=-. 48
List B2 Cued Recall
r= -.62 * r=-. 66**
r=-.45
r=-. 14 r=-.54*
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Computerized LASSI-L
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Touch the word that corresponds to
the description of the item.
You will see some words on the next
screen.
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Harmonica
Spoon
Horse
Lighter
Train
Touch the word that is an animal
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Harmonica
Spoon
Horse
Lighter
Train
✔
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Harmonica
Spoon
Horse
Lighter
Train
Touch the word that is a
musical instrument
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Harmonica
Spoon
Lighter
Train
✔
Horse
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You will see a set of 4 pictures
Touch the picture that
corresponds to the word that you
saw previously
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Long Delay Cued A and then Long Delayed Cued B
Short- Delay Cued Recall A
Cued Recall B
LIST B 1st Cued Encoding for 15 Semantically Distinct Targets
Cued Recall 2
LIST A 2nd Cued Encoding for 15 Semantically Distinct Targets
Cued Recall 1
LIST A 1st Cued Encoding for 15 Semantically Distinct Targets
LASSI-L Computerized CueD & DElayed Recall
Version
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How do we Develop the Most Effective Memory Assessment Instruments for
Clinical Trials?
• We need to develop paradigms that are maximally sensitive
• Different subtests capture different ranges of cognitive severity in MCI and PreMCI states.
• Cognitive markers should line up with sensitive biomarkers in MCI and PreMCI states.
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How do we Develop the Most Effective Memory Assessment Instruments for
Clinical Trials?
• Individual variability caused by differences in attention, education, culture and learning strategies can be minimized by employing techniques such as controlled learning.
• Constructs such as proactive and retroactive interference in the context of maximum storage allows us to compare a person’s performance to their optimal capability.
• Assessment must be computerized for optimal portability, reliability in administration and applicability to the early stages of AD.
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RESEARCH TEAM- UM Center on Aging and UM Department of Psychiatry
University of Miami Mount Sinai (Miami Beach)
Sara Czaja, PhD Ranjan Duara, MD
Philip Harvey, PhD
David Loewenstein, PhD
Rosie Curiel, PsyD
Elizabeth Crocco, MD
Samir Sabbag, MD
Sankarin Nair, MS